Habib 'beaten until leaving Guantanamo'

Mamdouh Habib says he was beaten until his final days in the US
detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and has accused Australian
officials of having "no humanity" for failing to intervene.

Mr Habib is suing Nationwide News over a February 2005 newspaper column that implied he made false claims about torture.

A
jury found he had been defamed by the article, and Nationwide News is
now mounting a defence of truth and justification in the NSW Supreme
Court.

Mr Habib said he was beaten from the day of his arrest in
Pakistan in 2001 until his final moments in 2005 at Guantanamo Bay,
where he claimed he was experimented upon.

"People have no humanity, they have been using us for experiments," he told the court.

"They using us like rats and dogs and animals.

"Every single injection, I take it by force."

Mr
Habib denied a number of claims made by an Australian team which
visited Guantanamo Bay in May 2002, including statements allegedly made
by him that he was being treated well and had no major complaints.

"I say that's not true, I never been treated well in Guantanamo Bay, or Egypt, or Pakistan," Mr Habib said.